The Scandalous, Dissolute, No-Good Mr. Wright: (Originally Published in the E-Book Anthology Three Weddings and a Murder)

by Tessa Dare

• ISBN10: 0062271377
• ISBN13: 9780062271372
• Publish Date: 8 January 2013 (first published 11 December 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 144
• Language: English

Reviews

[Rowena]

Tessa Dare delivers yet another historical short story that I couldn’t put down. I read this whole thing in one sitting and loved every minute of it. This story follows Lady Eliza Cade and Mr. Harrison Wright as they take years to finally get together.

They met at a ball, hosted by the heroines family. A ball that the heroine was not allowed to attend because she hadn’t yet had her coming out but she was watching the action from the morning room and that was when she meets Mr. Wright for the first time. He’s also in the morning room and he’s there for some reasons that made Lady Eliza blush at the same time that she gasped in outrage. Harry Wright makes no apologies for the way that he lives his life. Society thinks that they have him all figured out and that he’s this scandalous, no-good guy when he’s anything but.

This story takes place over the course of a few years. They meet when Eliza was just a kid and then they don’t see each other for years and then come across each other again a few years later. Every time they meet up, they spar with words and Eliza makes it clear that she’s not a fan of Harry’s. Harry is taken with Eliza because he can’t help himself. He sees her for the person that she really is and not the person that everyone sees her to be. I really liked the way that Harry loved Eliza and then how Eliza came to love Harry. Their romance was sweet and it was funny and it was everything that I love in a romance.

Tessa Dare always writes such fantastically entertaining stories that I lose myself in and this addition to her backlist is no different. She’s wrote a well rounded story with two characters that made me laugh out loud more than once and kept me wanting more. I adored this book and can’t recommend it enough. It’s another good one from Dare. Can’t wait for her next release…she seriously rocks!

[Linda]

*I received a free ARC of this book from Avonbooks / Harper Voyager US via Edelweiss in exchange of an honest review*

Very nice historical romance, with a fun heroine, and a sexy-as-hell future duke.

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The Scandalous, Dissolute, No Good Mr. Wright is a fun and romantic book, about the man Eliza really should stay far, far away from. When she meets him for the first time, she finds him quite different from the rake she'd imagined, though...

Because of something that happened when she was very young, Eliza is not allowed to be a débutante until all of her sisters are married off. She finds it very hard to keep waiting, she is more than ready to find herself a husband, and she is hiding in the library one evening when her parents are hosting a ball for one of her sisters. She is vehemently complaining to her youngest sister about how she wants to participate, and is very surprised when she discovers a man sitting there when her sister leaves her. Finding herself alone with Mr. Wright is the worst thing that could happen to Eliza, and she has no idea how to get out of the situation she finds herself in.

Soon, Mr. Wright and Eliza run in to each other by chance in different places, and their interactions are always great fun! Eliza can’t help but feel attracted to him, but he always acts a little aloof. At the same time, she’s sure her parents would never approve of him as he’s rumored to have played away all his money, and he’ll probably never become Duke. The debts of honor gone unpaid, expulsion from a famous gentleman’s club were only the tip of the iceberg as far as the ton was concerned.